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Discover fun and creative ideas to encourage play time with toys, light play, music, multi-sensory activities and tactile art. Also find seasonal holiday crafts!
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Holiday Crafts and Ideas
Play a Game of Pumpkin Bowling with a Braille Twist
Maybe you've been bowling, but have you ever been pumpkin bowling? This multi-sensory game is perfect for Fall and makes a fun Halloween party game, too!
Holiday Crafts and Ideas
A Silly Sensory Rattle for Halloween
A quijada is a rattle that's made from a donkey's jawbone and the sound of the instrument is created by the teeth rattling in the sockets. Perfect for Halloween, right?...
Holiday Crafts and Ideas
Scary Skeleton Halloween Wheelchair Costume
Looking for a fun and SPOOKY Halloween costume idea for your child's wheelchair? This year Ivan will be a skeleton in a graveyard!
Sensory Activities
Make Your Own Tactile Comparing Bag
Are you looking for ways for your blind child or student to experience tactual exploration in a safe, confined space? Then let me show you how to make your own...
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What’s Inside? Make Your Own Hidden Shape Puzzle
I love games that that don't require any vision to play. This is an easy DIY puzzle that anyone can play by identifying a hidden shape by feel and sound!
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5 Tips for Choosing the Best Extracurricular Program for Your Child with Visual Impairments
Finding the right extracurricular program for your child with visual impairments can be a tedious job, especially if your child struggles with other disabilities or sensory impairments as well. These...
Play, Visual Impairment
Summer Activities for Kids who are Blind
Looking for summer tips and advice to help you keep your blind child active during the break? Join our summer blog party to get advice from parents just like you!
Tactile Arts and Crafts, Visual Impairment
12 Easy Tips for Accessible Preschool Arts & Crafts for Kids who are Blind or Visually Impaired
Can a blind preschooler be included in preschool arts and crafts? Of course! With a little planning and forethought, preschool crafts can be completely accessible.
Light Play
Colors, Literacy and Social Play
This lesson plan from Ox Ridge Elementary School shows how the LightAide can be used in a second grade classroom to make story time accessible to all the students.
Light Play
Rainbow Lessons with Light and Texture
This is a seven-day lesson plan from Loge Elementary School where we spend one day on each color of the rainbow using a LightAide and tactile elements.
Light Play
The Look, Feel and Smell of Colors
It can be difficult to come up with fun, engaging and multi-sensory ways to teach colors to children who are visually impaired. This lesson plan uses the bright lights of...
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Bright Lights and Shape Identification
In this lesson plan from Yakima Public Schools, students are introduced to shapes and matching through the bright lights on the LightAide.
Sensory Activities
How to Organize a Sensory Nature Scavenger Hunt
Get your kids outside! Here's a list of nature sensory scavenger hunts along with a few tips and tools to entice every kid to get out and discover nature.
Toys, Visual Impairment
10 Questions to Ask When Purchasing a Toy for a Child who is Blind
The next time you're in a toy store or department store looking for toys for your child who is blind or visually impaired, keep these 10 questions in mind!
Behavior, Sensory Activities
8 Calming or Stimulating Sensory Activities for Kids with Sensory Impairment
Find a list of of sensory activities along with ways to make them more calming or more alerting and information about which sensory system they target. Try them out and...
Holiday Crafts and Ideas, Visual Impairment
Buyer’s Guide to Beeping Easter Eggs
We've sifted through the web and browsed our local stores to bring you this list of where to find beeping and noise-maker Easter eggs for your blind child.
Tactile Arts and Crafts
Apple Potpourri Sensory Art Project
Learn how to make an apple potpourri sensory art project with your blind child. It's easy and fun!
Light Play, Toys
Our Favorite Music and Light Toys
Bright lights and fun songs are proven motivators for children of all ages and abilities to encourage learning, motor skills, and understanding fundamentals of the way things work. Here are...
Holiday Crafts and Ideas, Music Play, Tactile Arts and Crafts
Make Your Own Chinese New Year Drum!
Although it's often seen as a children's toy or a fun sound effect at Chinese New Year, the Bolang Gu is actually an instrument that dates back to ancient China....
Sensory Activities
Make Your Own Sensory Snow Table!
Here's a fun sensory-friendly activity that is great on a snow day! Let your child explore snow and temperature with their own sensory snow table.
Light Play, Visual Impairment
Suncatcher Activities for Kids with Visual Impairments
Suncatcher art projects make great hands-on activities for children with visual impairments considering their tactile traits including different textures and raised-line graphics.
Light Play
Cups on a Light Box
If you just got yourself a Light Box for your blind child you may not know where to begin. This is a simple activity that may interest your baby right...
Holiday Crafts and Ideas
Make Your Own Tactile Christmas Ornaments!
Here's a simple and fun holiday activity! Make tactile Christmas ornaments with your child and create a more accessible Christmas tree!
Holiday Crafts and Ideas
Make Your Own Tactile Christmas Cards Using Your Child’s Artwork!
Elin shares how she and her son Theo were able to turn his artwork into tactile graphics Christmas cards that he could give to friends and family.